Название: King Edward II: His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330
Автор: Roy Martin Haines
Издательство: McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 0773524320
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 624
Размер: 39,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence.
This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home, and constitutional wrangling, ultimately brought to an end by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron.